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Nearly five decades after becoming a sex symbol for her role in “One Million Years B.C.,” Raquel Welch can still astound.

Wearing a sparkling, knee-length black dress, the 73-year-old shined on the red carpet for the Costume Designers Guild Award on Saturday night.

The actress was on hand to speak at the event, reports Deadline, talking about how the fur bikini she wore in the 1966 fantasy adventure changed her life.

Welch in the 1966 film “One Million Years B.C.”Photo: 20th Century Fox/courtesy Everett Collection

“I owe a huge debt of gratitude and respect to the contributions costume designers have made to our industry,” Welch said. “Let me put it this way: God was very good to me, but, well, it was the fabulous costume designers who knew exactly where and how to apply the frosting.”

Welch only had three lines in “One Million Years B.C.,” but the then 26-year-old’s appearance was enough to make her a part of movie history.

This isn’t the first time the actress has addressed how influential the barely-there costume was on her career.

“With the release of that famous movie poster, in one fell swoop, everything in my life changed and everything about the real me was swept away. All else would be eclipsed by this bigger-than-life sex symbol,” she wrote in her 2010 memoir, “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage.”